Fool Video: One Solid Stock, Dell's Comeback, eBay's New Competition, and Profiting From Pinks

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Is it time to buy housing stocks? What does Wal-Mart's (NYSE: WMT) new classifieds business mean for Craigslist and eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY)? Should Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Overstock.com (Nasdaq: OSTK) follow Wal-Mart's lead? Is Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) on the verge of a comeback as it does battle with Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and IBM (NYSE: IBM)? In this installment of "Fool Video," Motley Fool senior analyst Seth Jayson gives his take on the housing market, and Online Managing Editor LouAnn DiCosmo talks about some other stories on the Fool radar.

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